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Synonyms for marrow

Grammar : Noun
Spell : mar-oh
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmær oʊ

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Définition of marrow

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old English mearg "marrow," earlier mærh, from Proto-Germanic *mazga- (cf. Old Norse mergr, Old Saxon marg, Old Frisian merg, Middle Dutch march, Dutch merg, Old High German marg, German Mark "marrow"), from PIE *mozgo- "marrow" (cf. Sanskrit majjan-, Avestan mazga- "marrow," Old Church Slavonic mozgu, Lithuanian smagenes "brain"). Figurative sense of "inmost or central part" is attested from c.1400.
  • noun heart, essence
Example sentences :
  • When she pressed a little she felt she distinguished the suffering cries of the marrow.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • The bone was formed by sifting pure smooth earth and wetting it with marrow.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • Worst of all and most fatal is the disease of the marrow, by which the whole course of the body is reversed.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • The first principle of all of them was the generation of the marrow.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • It is the pith and marrow of every substance, every relation, and every process.
  • Extract from : « Nature » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lambert did some hard thinking for a little while, so hard that it wrenched him to the marrow.
  • Extract from : « The Duke Of Chimney Butte » by G. W. Ogden
  • He is ready to eat me, and she to freeze the marrow in my bones.
  • Extract from : « A Bride of the Plains » by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
  • In matters of form this poet is no romantic but a classic to the marrow.
  • Extract from : « Views and Reviews » by William Ernest Henley
  • Have no grit or zest for toiling and no marrow in their bones.
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 3, 1916 » by Various
  • A chill wind swept across the city and penetrated to the marrow.
  • Extract from : « The Pirate of Panama » by William MacLeod Raine

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